Electoral district of Murray (South Australia)
Murray South Australia—House of Assembly | |
|---|---|
| State | South Australia |
| Created | 1902 |
| Abolished | 1985 |
| Namesake | Murray River |
| Demographic | Rural |
Murray is a defunct electoral district that elected members to the House of Assembly, the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of South Australia. The electorate, incorporating part of the River Murray, was rural in nature, with Mannum the only large town within its boundaries.[1][2] From its establishment to the 1938 state election, Murray was a three-member electorate, but was made a single-member electorate afterwards, as part of a system of electoral malapportionment known as the "Playmander". In both incarnations it elected candidates from both major parties as marginal and safe seat holders at various times. If just 21 LCL votes were Labor votes in Murray at the 1968 election, Labor would have formed majority government. Murray was one of two gains in 1968 that put the LCL in office. The electorate was abolished prior to the 1985 election, with its territory now forming part of the districts of Hammond, Kavel, and Schubert. In total, 24 people represented Murray between 1902 and 1985, with its most notable member being Thomas Playford IV, who later served as Premier of South Australia.[3]
List of members
| First incarnation (1902–1938, 3 members) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | |||
| | Walter Duncan | National League | 1902–1906 | | Friedrich Pflaum | 1902–1905 | | Robert Homburg | National League | 1902–1905 | |
| | National League | 1905–1910 | | William Jamieson | National League | 1905–1906 | |||||
| | Hermann Homburg | National League | 1906–1910 | | Liberal and Democratic | 1906–1910 | |||||
| | Liberal Union | 1910–1915 | | Liberal Union | 1910–1915 | | Liberal Union | 1910–1912 | |||
| | Harry Young | Liberal Union | 1912–1923 | ||||||||
| | George Dunn | Labor | 1915–1917 | | Maurice Parish | Labor | 1915–1917 | | |||
| | National | 1917–1918 | | National | 1917–1918 | ||||||
| | Independent | 1918–1918 | |||||||||
| | Sid O'Flaherty | Labor | 1918–1921 | | Herbert Parsons | Liberal Union | 1918–1921 | ||||
| | John Godfree | Liberal Union | 1921–1923 | | John Randell | Liberal Union | 1921–1923 | ||||
| | Liberal Federation | 1923–1924 | | Liberal Federation | 1923–1924 | | Liberal Federation | 1923–1927 | |||
| | Clement Collins | Labor | 1924–1933 | | Frank Staniford | Labor | 1924–1927 | ||||
| | Ernest Hannaford | Liberal Federation | 1927–1930 | | Hermann Homburg | Liberal Federation | 1927–1930 | ||||
| | Frank Staniford | Labor | 1930–1931 | | Robert Hunter | Labor | 1930–1931 | ||||
| | Parliamentary Labor | 1931–1933 | | Parliamentary Labor | 1931–1933 | | Parliamentary Labor | 1931–1933 | |||
| | George Morphett | Liberal and Country | 1933–1938 | | Thomas Playford IV | Liberal and Country | 1933–1938 | | Howard Shannon | Liberal and Country | 1933–1938 |
| Second incarnation (1938–1977) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| | Richard McKenzie | Independent | 1938–1943 |
| | Labor | 1943–1953 | |
| | Hector White | Liberal and Country | 1953–1956 |
| | Gabe Bywaters | Labor | 1956–1968 |
| | Ivon Wardle | Liberal and Country | 1968–1974 |
| | Liberal | 1974–1977 | |
| | David Wotton | Liberal | 1977–1985 |
References
^ See section "ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF MURRAY" in An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1934–1953 – Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
^ See section "ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF MURRAY" in An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1934–1965 – Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
^ List of members is not directly navigable. Enter "Murray" in electorate drop-down menu to display list of members for the electorate. Former Members of the Parliament of South Australia – Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
External links
- The 13 electorates from 1902 to 1915: The Adelaide Chronicle
Coordinates: 34°55′S 139°20′E / 34.917°S 139.333°E / -34.917; 139.333
